Love is a shallow brook
. Tenderly wooing
; . Bach shady nook
7 With murmered suing
Tove is a river strong
Restlessly sweeping
Part sigh and song,
Laughter and weeping
Love is an ocean deep
Round the world flowing,
¥Where hidden sleep
Realms beyond knowing.
*® ® = *
Draw closer, heart of me,
' Thy secret telling;
Which of theses loves with thes
Malketh its dwelling? :
«Duffield Osborne, in Harper's Buzar.
THREE RIVALS.
[5% -~
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS, :
Laura Hunt stood on the front porch
of her aunt's residence looking across
the garden where the artemisias were in
bloom and late dahlias nodded their
heads upon their slender stalks, and
‘the seeds were browning on the morning-
glory vines.
She made a pretty picture in a calico
.of crushed strawberry tint, belted at the
waist, and with a white kerchief pinned
‘turban fashion about her head to keep
her gold-brown, waving hair from the
dust.
She had been doing the Friday's
sweeping, as became a poor relation,
while the cousins, the Misses Cumfry,
vere taking their Jast morning nap, with
Madame Cheatham’: celebrated dream
«of cowslips on their noses to repair the
ravages of late hours, and gloves on their
‘hands t> whiten them. To carry out
‘the Cinderslla simile, these Misses Cum-
fry ought to have been ‘ugly spinsters
with very evil tempers, but really they
were very pretty girls, with neat features
and trim figures, twins who loved each
otber and cared *for nobody else, and
who had been humored into a. sort of
dual selfishness by their mother, while
Laura, their cousin, the child of her late
husband's sister, was early taught to
make herself useful and find some oc-
cupation for every hour of the day.
+ So Laura had already swept and
dusted the parlor and filled the flower
vases and tidied the cup-clcset and
rubbed the dining-room windows, while
the twins, side by side in their pretty,
white bed, were still fast asleep.
As Laura leaned upon her broom and
contemplated the lingering autumn flow-
“ers, some one watched ber from the road
—a young man, fashionably dressed, and
with his full share of good looks.
¢+If that is the girl she is rather pret-
ty,” he said to himself. ‘That makesit
easier, and although I'm a lucky fellow,
I expected to find a dowdy or a fright.
Pretty cheeky business this, but I'm en-
dov.ed with the natural qualities neces:
sary for the adventure.”
And he walked slowly up the road,
opened the gace, and lifted his hat grace-
fully. /
¢‘Beg pardon,” he said. ¢*Mrs. Cumfry
dive here?”
++Yes,” answered Laura, glancing at
her big apron, and regretting the broom
and turban a little. ‘Yes, sir, and aunt
is in if you would like to see her.”
++I should very much, indeed, thanks,”
the young man replied, and Laura ush-
ered him into the pailor, where, while
he waited, there came to him, through a
door that had been unwittingly left ajar,
{ragments of a conversation:
“Laura Hunt, why didn’t you ask
what he wanted?”
s*Laura Hunt.
‘0 himself.
It’s a book agent or a lightning rod
mun, or somebody with silver polish, of
course,” conlinued « the shrill voice.
«You might as well have said no as 1.”
¢Ob, auntie, I'm sure he is nothing
of the sort,” said the softer voice of the
girl who had spoken to him. ‘They
always look so tired and anxious, poor
things! And he is so—so stylish.”
“Good! I've made an impression,”
said the young man to himself, as the
steps of a woman came toward tue door,
and a middle-aged lady opened it and
entered the parlor.
«If it’s anything to subscribe for—”
she began. >
Then, seeing a smile on his face, paused
suddenly.
“There are so many of them,” she
apologized.
The young man
her his card;
Mayne Morton.”
«Still you have the advantage of me,”
she said.
“J am quite a stranger, Mrs. Cumfry,”
young Morton replied, ‘‘but I think
you knew my aunt, Miss Brunder, once
upon a time. She boarded with some
of your neighbors.” :
"Mrs. Comfry smiled vaguely; she did
not remember the same; still, no doubt
he was right.
+] am taking my vacation rather late,”
he eaid, “and this is such a pleasant lit-
tle place, and my aunt told me that if
you would take me to board I should be
s0 comfortable.” :
“I? cried Mrs. Cumfry. ‘Why, I
haven’t taken a boarder in five years!
I'm all right,” he said
bowed and offered
on it she read: .¢‘Mr.
Then it was only old Mr. Palmer, the.
EY tak 4 [53 oo
Tearestate agents eT 26F so—trouhle
after a little pause.
do it.” i :
«I have no need to keep boarders, so
1 don’t make a practice of it,” she said,
«But still, to
oblige-—" a
«It will be a great obligation,” said the
«-oung man; avd so it came to pass that
when Dora and Cora came down to their
{ late breakfast, the news they heard fully
aroused they from their still rather stu-
pid condition,
¢A young gentlemen!” they cried.
t‘And is he nice? Is he handsome?
How funny he should come here!”
‘Yes, it is odd,” Mrs. Cumfry said.
‘T wonder whether he has seen either of
you?” :
The idea was so delightfully romantic
that they kissed each other then and
there, and rushed upstairs as soon as they
had swallowed their chocolate to put
lace in the bands of certain new fall
dresses in which to appear at the lunch
table, where they should meet the stran-
ger for the first time,
Meanwhile, out in the kitchen, where
she was rubbing the spoons, Laura was
saying to beiself:
«Who knows but he has seen me? I'm
as nice-looking as either Dora or Cora.
It was singular, his coming so, and he
stood watching me from the road quite
a long while.”
It was she who set the table for lunch,
and she wore the crushed-strawberry
calico, but the apron was removed, and
a bow at her throat and another in her
hair were becoming,
Cora and Dora blushed and giggled,
and talked pretty nonsense.
Their mother kept her eves upon them,
but certain glances, of which they were
not aware, ‘reached Laura, and she
laughed to herself as she washed the
dishes at the kitchen sink, and heard the
twins playing duets in the parlor.
Through the window she saw Richard
Beech mending his fences.
It would be’ stupid after all, she
thought, to marry a plain man who owned
a little two-story house, which had sunk
a little to one side, to go on washing
dishes and ironing table-cloths all her
life.
Mr. Mayne Morton's wife would prob-
ably have servants to wait on her.
Then, how beautifully he wore his
handsome clothes. And Dick Beech had
on an old striped linen jacket and a
fisherman’s hat, in the brim of which
sundry straws were sticking.
Dick was good and in love with her,
but neither Dora nor Cora would have
looked at him, and, oh, the joy of cut-
ting them out with an elegant New
Yorker!
Dick looked up just then, but he could
not.catch Laura's eye as he usually did,
and when he called on Sunday evening,
Laura was not disposed to give him a
chance to talk to her in the corner,
In fact, by this time she had learned
that Mayne Morton had come to the
house on her account solely. -
He had told her so one Saturday after-
noon, following her to the far end of
the garden where she was spreading
napkins to bleach, to talk to her.
+I know you'll be angry,” he said;
¢¢still, I want you to know my reason
for coming to Mrs. Cumiry’s to board
was a glimpse I had Had of you. Faint
heart never won fair lady, and I never
mean to lose the girl I love because of
not going tothe point at once. You know
I shall not let my wife do housework
and wear cotton gowns. You don’t
know what life might be yet.”
Laura was too bright not to coquette
a little, but her heart was heating with
flattered vanity. -
She was angry at herself when a mem-
ory of Dick Beech’s pleasant face—a
little soft heart-tug as it were,came over
her.
She drove it away ;she fried to believe
that she liked Mayne Morton for himself,
that she was not moved by a longing to
live elegantly and a wish to triumph
over the petted twins, but it is impos-
sible to deceive one’s self in such things.
As the weeks passed on,great changes
occurred in the little household.
To their mother’s horror the twins
began to quarrel. Instead of cooing and
kissing as had been their wont, they
actually slapped each other with their
soft, little pink palms, and called each
other ‘‘mean” and ¢‘thateful” without
saying for what. Both of them were
furious with Laura, and did all they
could to hurt her feelings, while their
mother gave her many hard tasks that
ing of meetings that took place at odd
times, or an engagement ring that Laura
wore on a ribbon about her neck.
Cumfry home, bringing Mrs. Cumfry
from her room,and Laura up the kitchen
stairs to the twins’ own apartment, when,
behold those young ladies in wrath and
tears. Dora grasping a handful of tulle
from Cora’s neck, Cora a little tuft of
hair from Dora’s curls.
“It is I!” screams Cora.
¢:It is I!” squeals Dora. *‘You are
always coming where you. are not
wanted.” :
‘He always wants me,” sobs Cora;
tonly you hang on forever, when we
wish you wouldn’t.” :
+¢Oh, my children!” sighs the mother;
¢4jt is only that you are both so pretty
that he doesn’t know which to choose.”
It is Laua’s face that looks in at the
door at this moment—Laura who closed
filled the day and evening, never guess-
But one day squeals rent the air of the |
parlor where he had been writing, au
sees the blotting-book which Dora once
decorated for him laying upon the table.
He has blotted his letter hastily, and a
whole page of the large, square paper he
has used has been iransferred to the
blotter—the writing reversed, of course.
But behind the table rises a mirror, and
looking into this, Laura sees the note
plainly reflected. She secs ber own
name.
«tHe has been praising me to some ol
his friends,” she says to herself; then she
finds herself reading this:
«Keep quiet, and I will certainly pay
you soon. I am going to marry an heir-
ess. You know I am in Chew & Chow.
ser’s law office, and know about all that
is going on there. Lately I learned that
a rich old man, who cannot live six
months, had made his will in favor of a
ceriain Laura Hunt, his grandniece.
The girl doesn’t know it yet. She iss
poor relation in an aunt's house, ard
doesn’t dream of her good luck, so I took
time by the forelock, came here, pre-
tended to be smitten, and we are engaged.
She jumped at me as a means of escape
from the housework, and I shall hurry
on the wedding. My bride to be is not
quite my style. There are two much
prettier girls in the house, but—"
There was no more, but Lanra had
read quite enough, and if the twins,
reconciled, and making common cause
against & common enemy, could have
seen poor Laura’s heart just then, they
would have felt themselves avenged.
Laura was very miserable for awhile,
then s egan to be glad that she had
had ge Mortons motives in
time.
Then she went to the window and
looked out. Richard Beech was
busy painting the front door of his little
yellow house.
What a pretty residence he could
build on that ground if he had a rich
wife, she said to herself. Thea she
found herself laughing, and as Richard
looked up from nis work, she nodded
and smiled to him, :
That night Mayne Morton went dis-
consolately home to New York. :
He was no longer engaged to an
heiress, and when Laura married Rich-
ard Beech, the twins made such lovely
bridemaids, that the two groomsmen fell
in love with them on the i every-
body was as happy as possiblejever after,
Family Story Paper. ;
The Forbidden Land.
Thibet is in more than one sense ‘the
most inaccessible country in the world.
Embosomed atid the: summits of the
Himalayas, it consists of a series of
plateaus and is credited with the highest
regularly inhabitsted spot in the universe
—_the Buddhist monastery Halne, 16,000
feet above sea level. 2
Lhasa, the capital of Thibet proper,
has been fitly described as: the Mecca of
Buddhism, for it is the holy city of that
ancient cult. In this country, we are
told by the Buddhists, may pe found the
two divine incarnations ever present on
earth, the Dalai Lama or Gem of Majesty
and the Teshu Lama or Gem of Learning.
The former perpetually resides in the
holy city and the latter in the southern
part of the country. These p3psonages,
it seems, never pass beyond the age of
youth, for after a brief mortal existence
they die or disappaar and shortly after-
ward a reincarnation takes place. The
only Englishman who ever reached Lhasa
was Thomas Manning, who was disguised
as a Chinese doctor. JS a
He “interviewed” the Dalai Lama, a
mere boy, at the beginning of the present
century. Previous to this Warren Hast-
ings had endeavored to gain admission
to the country, but found himself check-
mated. Although his special envoy, Mr.
Bogle, was foiled, another emissary,
Captain Turner, in 1872 was allowed to
reach Teshu Lumbo, in the south, to pay
his respects to the new Teshu Lama on
the occasion of another incarnation.
From the time of Manning’s adventure to
the present the *‘Palnis,” or white con-
querors of ‘India, as we are called, have
been kept out of Thibet.
priests, Messrs. Huc and Gabet, paid the
capital a visit about 1845, and these are
the last Buropeans who ever saw its
walls. Whether it be owing to the in-
fluence of the Chinese or the Buddhist
monks, Thibet is now known as the for-
bidden land, Our recent knowledge of
the country is derived solely from the re-
ports of native explorers acting for the
Indian Survey Department, while our
Asiatic rival, Russia, has failed in every
attempt to reach ‘the Eternal Sanctuary,
the Vatican, the Holy City of ‘Half
Asia. ’~—London Chronicle. :
Curiosities About Coins.
Certain passages in the Iliad of Homer
would lead to the inference that coins of
brass were struck zs early as 1184 years
B. ¢. Tradition afficms ‘that the Chi-
nese had bronze coins as early as 1120
B. C. But Herodotus, ‘the Father of
“History,” ascribes the ‘‘invention” of
coins to the Lydians, about nine cen-
turies B. C., and there is no satisfactory
evidence that coins were Khown prior fo
that date. .
The original process of coining was
very simple. A globular piece of metal,
having a defined weight, was placed ona
die, engraved with some national or ry-
ligious symbol, and struck with a hani-
‘ since our
Two French
A PLAIN ANSWER TO THE STATEMENT,
“WHY I AM A REPUBLICAN.'—WHAT
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY REPRE-
SENTS.
Valued correspondents of the Press
have suggested that it would be well to
put in plain words the reason which a
member of the Republican party might
be supposed to give to the question
“Why Iam a Republican.” We take
great pleasurein undertaking a task at
once so easy and so agreeable. Any
Republican on being challenged to give
an account of the faith that isin him
will make no mistake if he responds sub-
stantially as follows: 7
I am a Republican, first of all, because
I believe in the political principles of
the Republican. = party. Foremost
amongst these is protection to American
industry. Just now this is the leading
national issue. Itis forced to the front
by a savage and persistent attack that is
made against the protective system,
partly in the interest of foreign. manu-
facturers, partly under the influence of
a coterie of free trade theorizers who
know a good deal about books, but
nothing at all about business, and partly
in accordance with the general Demo-
cratic idea of opposing whatever the
Republican party favors.
this system bscause it is wise in principle
and beneficent in practice. It was in-
dorsed by George Washington. It was
sanctioned by John Adams and Heary
Clay and Daniel Webster and a host of
the greatest and best men of the country.
History shows that when there has been
a protective tariff the country has pros-
pered, and when there has been iittie or
no tariff protection there has been little
or no prosperity. Protection has given
profitable investment to capital and
steady employment to labor: at rates
of wages double those that
are paid. for the same! work
in free trade England or could be paid.
here if anti-protection Democrats and
doctrinaires had iheir way. And at the’
some time it has, by enormously increas-
ing the home supply and the home de-
mand, steadily reduced the price of
almost every protected product, as the
Press has shown beyond dispute in its
series of **Tariff Pictures.” Protection
has enabled the United States to pay its
national debt at an average rate of the
past twenty-five years of $174,000 a
day, presenting in this respect a sight
which the world has never before seen.
Within this past year, under the opera-
tions of the McKinley law, which its
enemies prophesied one year ago would
raise the prices of the necessaries of life
and strangle trade, there has been more
domestie trade, more exports of Ameri-
can goods abroad, and actually more im-
ports of foreign goods, reckoned by
value, than in any twelve months before
national existence began.
Meanwhile one dollar has bought more
of the necessaries of life than ever be-
fore, and the people, rich and poor,
have had more dollars to buy with.
I am a Republican because I am
a protectionist, and I am a protectionist
because I am an American.
Another principle of the Republican
party is honest money. It is that every
stdollar” shall be worth 100 cents. It
is, as President Harrison has said, that
every dollar issued by the Government
shall be worth exactly as much as every
other dollar issued by the Government.
It is opposed to the free and unlimited
coinage of ¢‘dollars” that were worth 80
cents yesterday, are worth 75 cents to-
day, may be worth 70 cents, less or
mcre, to-morrow, but never have been
and, unless present conditions of the
mining Industry are reversed, never can
be worth 100 cents. The Democratic
party, on the other hand, with a few
honorble exceptions,stands committed to
a debased silver coinage to-day, just as
it stood for irredeemable and deprecated
| greenback currency a few years ago, just
as it was responsible for the wreck and
ruin caused by the wildcat banks, the
¢¢shinplaster’”’ ‘money before the war. I
am a Republican because I am an Honest
man in my political as in my private
conduct, and I know that lowering the
monetary standard means robbery, and
especially robbery of those who can least
afford to be robbed, the poor and the
wage earner.
The Republican party stands for
honest elections. In the national plat-
forms of the party this principle finds a
conspicuous place. In the Fifty-first
Congress a bill to secure a free vote and.
a fair count at every Congressibnal or
Presidental election, East, West, North
and South, was passed by a Republican
Hcuse, in spite of the opposition of every
Democratic member, was certain, it
passed to be signed by a Republican
President, and would have become a law
but for an alliance against it of all the
enen i 8 both of honest morey and honest
elections. It is the Republican party
that for the most part, has secured the
adoption in many States of the Austral-
jan, or reformed, ballot, and ‘it is the
‘Déwqocratic party that has hindered its
adoption, as witness the repeated vetoes
of Governor Hill and the fact that the
solid South is arrayed against ballot re-
form. I am a Republican because 1
| the Democratic, -
| keepers of grog shops and gambling dens
I believe in.
‘State, or any one city, or any one branch
| ment a foremost place among the nations
_ever, with scores’ of millions of dollars
iscongin and Illinois, alway
never the Republica
party. Wherever a political party is ir
ieague with the assassins of society, with
and brothels and receivers of stole*
goods; levying pecuniary tribute for police
‘protection,’ as in the league between
Tammany Hall and the law brea kers ol
New York, it is always the Dem ocratic,
never the Republican party. Because 1
believe in law, intelliflence and decency
Lama Republican.
1 have smd that Iam a Republican,
first of all, because I believe in tue
political principles of the Republican
party, and I have cited these: Protec.
sion to American industry,honest money,
honest elections, justice to veterans, free
schools and public morals. Now I say,
in the second place, that1 am a Repub:
fican because the past of my party Is one
of which Iam proud. That would not
alone be a sufficient reason, but taken
together with the party's present ate
titude on living questions it makes assur-
ance doubly sure, ‘There is but one
lamp,” said Patrick Henry,
“by which my feet are guided.
and that 1s the lamp of “experi
ence.” ¢‘History is philosophy teach-
ing by example,” said Dionysius of Hali-
carnassus, and this’ saying has passed
current for ages as one of the coined in-
gots of human wisdom. History teaches
me that the Democratic party was the
party of nullification, of human slavery,
of the suppression of free speech, of
secession, of armed rebellion at the
South, of Copperheadism at the North,
of national repudiation; that the Demo-
cratic party was opposed to free home-
steads for the people out of the public
domain; that it connived at the plunder-
ing of the nation’s treasury and the
stealing of the country’s arms and war-
ships under’Buchanan; that it declared
the war a failure after Gettysburg had
been fought and won; that under Dewo-
cratic control the country went from bad
to worse, from poverty to bankraptcy,
and from bankruptcy to the verge of
disruption; and that in all the thirty
years and more since Democratic guns
opened fire on Fort Sumter the party, as
a party, has never got control of any ons
of the Federal Government without giv-
ing evidence that it has not changed its
nature. : ki :
Meanwhile the Republican party, from
the day of its birth until now, has been:
the party of freedom, progress, union,
honesty, honor; the paity to which
whatever is best in the young manhood
of each generation gravitates. ‘The Re-
publican party freed the slave and saved
the nation. It preserved the country’s
credit. It madg a depreciated currency
zood as gold. It settled the Alabama
claims by an arbitration that combined
“peace with honor.” I$ joined the At-
lantic to the Pacific by lines of transcon-
tinental railway. It gave to our Govern-
>f the earth. Its men have been com-
mensurate with its measures. Not now
io allude to the living, except to say that
they are worthy successors of the noble
dead, the Republican party is the party
»f Lincoln and Chase, Seward and
3reeley, Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens,
>f Giant and Garfield. :
Because no intelligent citizen can re-.
sount the history of the one party with-
»ut pride, or of the other without shame,
[ am a Republican and not a Democrat.
—New York Press. ‘
re — TL Erinn
A Great National Issue,
Edward J. Phelps, Cleveland's Minis-
ter to Eogland, has thus defined the
issue of the Presidential campaign:
“Jt will be tariff. The only way to
test the question of protection and free
trade is by trying thom.”
‘ Preimer Salisbury, at the Lord Mayor's
banquet, declared that England will
not falter in its devotion to. free trade,
but that, in view of recent protection
successes, Great Britain may expect to
to stand alone as the free trader among
nations.
Ohio’s vote testifies to the world the
verdict of the whole Union on the trial
of protection and reciprocity. A country
unrivaled in facilities for protecting its
labor ‘and expanding its commerce is
ready to displace Great Britain as the
first of manufacturing and. trading na-
tions. It is the shadow of our coming
supremacy that frightens the Tory Prime
Minister.
With living necessities cheaper than
distributed among our laborers and
dealers heretofore paid to foreign indus-
tries for their wares, with Federal laws
and treaties opening rich avenues of
traffic to American merchants under the
American flag, we are more than ever
ready to meet the question between the
American and the British policy.
- So far as regards tariff, the issue next
year will be the issue of 1833. Bat the
victory for Americanism over Anglicism
will be more signal and more glorious,
bacause protection promises of prosperity
have been fulfilled, while free trade pre-
dictions of disaster have been falsified.
—New York Press.
a
A MISER'S MISERABLE END.
Overtaken by Death While Engaged in
Counting Over $22,000.
and wanted the comforts of a home.”
“PBxactly what I want, and 1 will
promise to give no trouble either,” said
young Morton. “I detest hotels; I
can’t endure the class of people one meets
«at a common boarding house. A refined
family, especially where the young ladies
were musical, would be my ideal.”
This thought had occurred to him as
he remarked the presence of an upright
ano, off which the twins were wont to
lay. duets. :
“Mrs. Cumfry looked at him.
He is stylish,” she thought. “Laura
right, no doubt, He is very well
good business, anyhow.” Her
climbed the stairs and viewed
it, and stands with . an air ol’ triumph at
the foot of the! bed on which Cora has
cast herself.
¢‘Really,” she says, in a superior tone.
«I couldn’t help overhearing, and since
‘Cora and Dora are quarreling about Mr.
Morton, perhaps I'd better tell them
that I am engaged to him.”
She draws a ring from her bosom and
slips it on her finger, and there is a
tableau—no matter for particulars. She
has had her triumpn. The petted daugh-
ters of the house have been passed by for
her. sake, and the man can have had no
motive but pure love. Still she cannot
feel proud of her own conduct, for she
knows well that she likes Dick Beech far
better than she does Mayne Morton, even
» DOW.
Happily Morton has left the house be-
believe in unbought and wunbullied
mer until it had Teceived The Impression:
was the Persian Daric, a gold coin struck
during the reign of Darius, nearly five
centuries B. C. The first coinage in
Rome was about, the year 600 B, C. The
metal used was bronze, and the unit of
value was one pound in weight. The
coin was called an as, was brick shaped
and stamped with the figure of a sheep
or an ox.
Silver was first coined at Rome in the
year 275 B. C. The first Roman gold
coin was issued only about se'venty-four
years B. C. ’ :
The Saxons coined the first British
pieces about the year 279 A. D.
The first Colonial coins issued in this
country were struck in Massachusetts in
2052, They tere three, six and twelve
pence pieces.—St. Louis Republics 5
One of the most ancient Asiatic coius:
suffrage.
The Republican party is the friend of
the soldier. It believes that justice, not
to speak of generosity, demands that the
men wk o imperiled their lives to save ou.
country requires the redeemed nation to
care for its deliverers and for their lovea
ones, with the open palm of gratitude
and not with the clinched fist or parsi-
mony. I am a Republican because I as
a patriot. 4
The Republican party stands for the
sénool and the home, From that party
have come the most liberal approoria.
tions, the most effective laws on behalf
of free public education. From that
party have come practically the only laws:
that exist to-day designed to restrict the
traffic in intoxicating drinks, or by other
means to limit the ternble evils of im-
temperance. Per - contra, where
‘Governnient bonds, mortgages and other:
West, Superior, Wis, Dec. 12—Thomas
Doeher cate here in T8303 Irom Permsyivania—
and that his time has not been lost since
then was proved this morning, when a
neighbor, alarmed atthe * old man’s non-
appearance, broke into his residence and
found him stretched dead on his bed, a
pile of gold beside him, a bundle of bills on
the table, and a miscellaneous assortment of
securities scattered on the floor. Wealth to
the amount of over $22,000 was scattered
about the room. Investigation showed that
the old man had been engaged in counting
his wealth when stricken by heart disease.
Tar Christmas number of HARPER'S
WrERLY, published December 2d,
comprises mahy new and attractive
features. It is included in a specially
designed cover, and is full of enter-
taining stories and beautiful pictures.
A Xittle frock behind the
A little shoe upon the
A little lad with dark brown nat
‘A little blue eyed face and fair,
A little lane that leads to school
A little pencil, slate and rule
A little blithsome, winsome maid,
A little hand within it laid; =
‘A little cottage, acres four,
A little old time household score,
A little family gathered round; Fa
A little turf heaped, tear dewed mound;
A little added to his soil, 4
A little rest from hardest toit
A little silver in his hair,
A little stool and easy chair;
A little night of earth lit gloom,
A little cortege to the tomb. Cait
— Baltimore Herald.
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PITH AND POINT.
He who talks and talks away =
Escapes what other bores might say,
A counter irritant—An impudent dry
goods clerk.— Buffalo Inquirer. ;
The description ‘‘late lamented” ap-
plies forcibly to the delinqueut debtor.
Tt is not at all surprising that parrots
should use poly-syliables.—DBoston Jour-
nal. 2
The farmer who closely packs his load
of wood is sure to strike the popular
chord. ; Sl
When the Chairman of a meeting wants a
rapt attention he get it with his gavel.
— Statesman. : =
There's pitch in the voice, and tha
why some singers’ notes stick.——Pufts-
“burg Dispatch.
No, Matildy, felines don’t go rowing
Jn a cat boat; they row cn back fences
— Elmira Gazette. ‘ :
A man never has so great a trouble
when he has one he can’t blame on an
one else.—Atchison Globe. os
It is easier to forgive enemies we have
worsted than enemies who have worsted
us,—New York Herald. or
A. man never has so great a trouble
as when he has one he can’t blame on
anyone else.— Atchison Globe. {
The business in which you know you
could make the money is generally the
other man's.— Texas Siftings.
The man who lives upon his brain,
"By wit earns all his bread,
Ne'er finds it in the least way vain
To stand upon his head. :
— Harper's Baza
Queries—*Does Miss Prym believe
everything in her Bible?” Cynicus
‘Yes, except the entry of her birth."
New York Journal. ’ :
Employer—** Your first duty will be
to post this ledger.” New Clerk (rather
too readily)—‘‘Yessir; where shall T.
send it?’— Puck Me Up. | : ie
Bupting—¢‘Why on carth do you cal
your wife ¢ Misery? ” .Larkin-—‘Most
appropriate name in the world, sir. She
loves company.”-— Truth. :
¢¢Oh, ma,” cried Willie, as a few of
the crew ran by, ‘there go some more
men up the avenue with those perspirers
on.—Harvard Lampoon. 2
“I am not vain, ah no,” she wrote,
. With evident sincerity. oe
The doorbell rings, to the glass she springs
‘With positive celerity.
; —Yankee Blade. :
Tt was the cynical bachelor who sym-
phatically observed that there was ne
slight danger attending a fashionable
wedding there was so much typhus about
it.—Boston Transcript.
Actor—¢‘I have worked hard to please
the people. I have tried everything in
the business but they won't be pleased.”
Manager—¢‘Have you tried going out of
the business?’—DBrookiyn Citizen.
Willie (scared)—¢Now we've milked
the cow, what'll wedo? Pop'll beawful
mad.” Jimmie (equal to the occasion)
——¢We'll drive her down to the pond and
fill her up with water.”— Harper's Bazar.
It always seems to me that cheek
Succeeds in besting worth and skill;
‘Why, een in church one small red cent
Makes more noise than a dollar bill.
‘ — Colorado Sun.
Timid Citizen (who has just escaped
{from a riot)—=¢* Who are you, sir??? ¢Po-.
liceman—*‘I am a member of the police
force. There is my badge.” Timid
Citizen (vociferously) ¢‘Help! help!"—
New York Journal. :
Time Makes All Things Even: Pegg
| —++Sometimes the absolute faith my boy
‘has in my wisdom makes me almost
ashamed of myself.” Potts—*You need
not worry. It will average up all right.
By the time he 1s twenty he will think
you know nothing at all.”—Tndianapolis
Journal,
«If I had known,” sobbed young Mrs.
Fitts, ‘‘that you would be such a brute
to poor Fido, I never, never would havi
married you.” ‘My dear,” replied Mr,
Fitts, *‘the anticipation of kicking that
miserable little beast was one of my chiel
reasons for proposing to you!-—Indian.
apolis Journal. cae
Laura—*‘If papa gives his consent,
George, dear, when you go to ask him,
won't you be fairly transported with
joy?! George (somewhat apprehen-
sively)—**Yes, Laura, and if it shouldn't
| happen to strike him. favorably and he's
feeling right well I shouldn’t wonder if
I'd be considerably moved anyhow.!—
an
Trate Mamma—*Goodness mel Ith
half an hour since I sent you around to
the store to get those things, and here
you are back without them.” Little
Dick—*It was such a long time before
my turn came to be waited on that I for-
got what it was you wanted.” (Then
why didn’t you come and find out?
“1 was afraid if I left I'd lose my turn.”
1 met a tearful little lass: Th
She sobbed so hard I could not pass, = |
1 wondered so thereat; le
Oh, dry your tears, my pretty child, -
Pray tell me why you grieve so wild®
wp Amo ER
ate up your cat? W
To think she'd fib quite i .
Why, how can you say that?’
Her tears afresh began to 2)
_ Bhe sobbed the words
| “Ib—was—a—candy—catl?
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